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This article analyses the intergenerational evolution of nutritional inequality in Spain between 1840 and 1984. With male height data (N=358,253), the secular trend of biological well-being and intergenerational anthropometric inequalities are studied based on the coefficient of variation,...
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education and health-care systems work well for most. However, some New Zealanders are stuck on low incomes and face material …. Māori, Pasifika and low-income households have also experienced slower rates of improvement in many health and education … housing and enhance health and education outcomes for disadvantaged groups. These reforms go in the right direction and, in …
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implements a new decomposition on the China Health and Nutrition Panel Survey (1991-2006) to examine the extent to which changes … in level and distribution of incomes and in income mobility are related to health disparities between rich and poor. We … find that health disparities in China relate to rising income inequality and in particular to the adverse health and income …
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is adequately pro-poor, shared, or inclusive. Less noticed is that improvements in children's health are accelerating …, too. This paper examines the extent to which these health improvements are equitably shared or "inclusive." We use a … America. We draw two principal conclusions. First, within countries, health improvements often have a different distribution …
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The well known Preston Curve shows relationship between per capita output and health achievements. What role does …
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Living standards in China have greatly improved over the past few decades. Both sustained economic growth and an expansion of the social security system have contributed to a sharp reduction in the number of people in poverty. However, urban-rural inequalities remain large and some of the...
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In response to observed growing inequalities in income and other dimensions of well-being, including health, the OECD … different socioeconomic groups. This paper links health to the overall inclusive growth agenda. It assesses the two …-way relationship between health and socioeconomic factors. An empirical health production function is specified, using data from 35 …
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This study estimates the impact of health capital on economic growth in 10 Balkan countries over the 2000-2019 period … results revealed that economic growth responds to short-term and long-term health capital changes. Estimation results indicate … a positive relationship between health capital and the economic growth of Balkan countries. According to the results …
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This paper provides empirical evidence regarding the causal links between macroeconomic uncertainty and output growth using Greek data. Uncertainty is considered in distinct components, namely the inflation uncertainty and the output growth uncertainty. The results reveal significant negative...
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